I gotta buy groceries, man. I live in CA so they freak if you don't wear it. I also take it off right when I'm done paying. I walk to the car without it, and I don't put it on until I take a step inside the store.
If I just take it off, they'll throw me out. The grocery store is literally the one place I go where I wear the mask. Gotta buy food. Sucks.
It’s about simply telling yourself you don’t do business with those businesses. If you do that, you won’t care or feel embarrassed if someone tries to play hall monitor. You just do business elsewhere.
Or ya know, they’re just people doing their jobs because upper management is pushing the mask mandate and they don’t want to catch shit/lose their job for not enforcing it. But yeah, all assholes.
They meaning the business. I’m also clearly not describing being mean or saying anything to the employees, even on a personal level. I’m merely saying tell yourself they don’t deserve your business. That’s it.
Whenever you're doing non-compliance, smile, agree, and thank the mindless Karen, but just keep doing whatever it was you were doing. You can keep going with "OK. Cool. Thanks a lot. Yeah, gotcha" until the Karen either completely loses their mind or just leaves you alone.
Did you give any pushback or immediately fold? I've been asked to leave and put on my mask more than I can count, but I've ALWAYS been able to make my purchase.
I tell people "I really wish I could" [bring myself to] "wear a mask, but I have difficulty breathing." (that last part is true for everyone - it's harder to breathe with a mask). "I don't want to cause a disturbance, I'm not making a statement, I'd just like to make my purchase in peace." This keeps me righteous, non-confrontational, and taps the manager/security guard's humanity.
Having some kind of inhaler on your person helps sell this as well (although I never lie)
I got kicked out and banned from my local Giant for shopping without a mask a couple weeks ago. The manager called the police, lied about having told me before that I needed to wear a mask in the store (literally only the second time I'd gone into that store maskless, and the first time no one said anything to me at all) regardless of any health conditions I had, and had the cop escort me out and told me I wasn't welcome back in.
And that would be a prime example of a business I would go out of my way to make sure never gets my money again. I'd tell them on a regular basis, too. I tweet @Menards periodically whenever talking about how they've lost my business forever thanks to being mask gestapo.
Proven to cause 17% less oxygen with each breath. I see people at the gym working out with masks on and it’s got to be miserable. We’re required to wear them at work everyday doing some brutal labor and the only time we wear them is when there’s safety people around.
Even they don’t wear them if they’re in a secluded place with 1-2 people they trust. It’s all a fucking farce.
The only reason I wear one in a store is so I don’t get bitched at because I’ll flip out on someone
I should have specified this only goes for N95’s and similar masks while being worn properly. Basically we exhale more CO2 into the mask then oxygen coming in. So after a little we begin to breath more CO2 less oxygen. It’s why you’ll get headaches and feel lightheaded after wearing one and breathing heavy.
If you wear a cloth covering or those paper surgical masks it’s no different than breathing normally
I've only been kicked out of one store (Menard's). I told them on my way out that I'll never give them a dime again, and I fuckin meant it (they don't care of course). Even after all this is said and done, they're forever on my shit list. Lowe's and Home Depot still let me right in with no mask.
I'm in PA and have been kicked out of 2 stores. It's humiliating.
Yeah - I myself just keep it off my nose. I’ve been corrected for that by clerks and I just say I’m not interested in that, thanks anyway.
I am not interested in having conflicts everywhere I go and I just want to get my shit and go home. I realize it’s cowardly but I am starting small.
I leave it below my nose too.
I gotta buy groceries, man. I live in CA so they freak if you don't wear it. I also take it off right when I'm done paying. I walk to the car without it, and I don't put it on until I take a step inside the store.
If I just take it off, they'll throw me out. The grocery store is literally the one place I go where I wear the mask. Gotta buy food. Sucks.
Perhaps "Thanks but I already belong to a church" is an appropriate response.
Don’t let it get to you. Just have the mindset that if they ask you to wear a mask, they are assholes and don’t deserve your business.
At one place, I was asked multiple times to wear a mask. I was HAPPY to leave.
Before it happened I was worried of getting kicked out and feeling embarrassed, but now I wish it happened more often. It felt good to leave.
Min. wage employees DGAF if you take your business somewhere else.
It’s about simply telling yourself you don’t do business with those businesses. If you do that, you won’t care or feel embarrassed if someone tries to play hall monitor. You just do business elsewhere.
Or ya know, they’re just people doing their jobs because upper management is pushing the mask mandate and they don’t want to catch shit/lose their job for not enforcing it. But yeah, all assholes.
They meaning the business. I’m also clearly not describing being mean or saying anything to the employees, even on a personal level. I’m merely saying tell yourself they don’t deserve your business. That’s it.
Whenever you're doing non-compliance, smile, agree, and thank the mindless Karen, but just keep doing whatever it was you were doing. You can keep going with "OK. Cool. Thanks a lot. Yeah, gotcha" until the Karen either completely loses their mind or just leaves you alone.
Did you give any pushback or immediately fold? I've been asked to leave and put on my mask more than I can count, but I've ALWAYS been able to make my purchase.
I tell people "I really wish I could" [bring myself to] "wear a mask, but I have difficulty breathing." (that last part is true for everyone - it's harder to breathe with a mask). "I don't want to cause a disturbance, I'm not making a statement, I'd just like to make my purchase in peace." This keeps me righteous, non-confrontational, and taps the manager/security guard's humanity.
Having some kind of inhaler on your person helps sell this as well (although I never lie)
I got kicked out and banned from my local Giant for shopping without a mask a couple weeks ago. The manager called the police, lied about having told me before that I needed to wear a mask in the store (literally only the second time I'd gone into that store maskless, and the first time no one said anything to me at all) regardless of any health conditions I had, and had the cop escort me out and told me I wasn't welcome back in.
Thanks Maryland.
Might be a store policy [mandate] nationwide, thanks, I'll know to avoid [boycott] Giant.
Keep up the good fight pede.
And that would be a prime example of a business I would go out of my way to make sure never gets my money again. I'd tell them on a regular basis, too. I tweet @Menards periodically whenever talking about how they've lost my business forever thanks to being mask gestapo.
She wants the B. 😎
Proven to cause 17% less oxygen with each breath. I see people at the gym working out with masks on and it’s got to be miserable. We’re required to wear them at work everyday doing some brutal labor and the only time we wear them is when there’s safety people around.
Even they don’t wear them if they’re in a secluded place with 1-2 people they trust. It’s all a fucking farce.
The only reason I wear one in a store is so I don’t get bitched at because I’ll flip out on someone
Would love to have a source on that 17% if you know of one
Pretty long article
I should have specified this only goes for N95’s and similar masks while being worn properly. Basically we exhale more CO2 into the mask then oxygen coming in. So after a little we begin to breath more CO2 less oxygen. It’s why you’ll get headaches and feel lightheaded after wearing one and breathing heavy.
If you wear a cloth covering or those paper surgical masks it’s no different than breathing normally
I've only been kicked out of one store (Menard's). I told them on my way out that I'll never give them a dime again, and I fuckin meant it (they don't care of course). Even after all this is said and done, they're forever on my shit list. Lowe's and Home Depot still let me right in with no mask.